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Matt G 04-25-2012 12:13 PM

Found one in my yard yesterday. I found a powder I think it was called Snake Away that I used last summer after seeing a few around the house. Didn't see any after I spread it. I need to find some more I guess.

mcjaredsandwich 04-25-2012 12:21 PM

Found an all brown snake yesterday while mowing shaws yard..was a baby, wasn't a grass snake but didn't know what it was. Head was removed shortly there after

sammich

inchspinner 04-25-2012 12:24 PM

Sounds like one of dem babby coppaas....dey'll get ya too..

mcjaredsandwich 04-25-2012 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by inchspinner (Post 423953)
Sounds like one of dem babby coppaas....dey'll get ya too..

That's what I thought it was...its a dead snake now :)

sammich

Crawdaddct 04-25-2012 12:55 PM

Copperheads are social. If you killed one, there is another one around. I've seen them search for their partner. This time of year there is probably a nest around. I got luck this year. A couple of Red tail hawks nested in the tree by my house. In the evenings I watch them come back with dead snakes. They caught a milk snake in our front yard yesterday. The squirrels are extremely skittish this year. :)

SaltyShaw 04-25-2012 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Crawdaddct (Post 423967)
Copperheads are social. If you killed one, there is another one around. I've seen them search for their partner. This time of year there is probably a nest around. I got luck this year. A couple of Red tail hawks nested in the tree by my house. In the evenings I watch them come back with dead snakes. They caught a milk snake in our front yard yesterday. The squirrels are extremely skittish this year. :)

Well that's awesome news
Thanks lol I gotta find me some of dat snake powder or santin sha

Lake Chuck Duck 04-25-2012 01:11 PM

I'm pretty sure they got snake away at greengate, but can probably find it at any home store with a garden center.

Garfish 04-25-2012 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Lake Chuck Duck (Post 423975)
I'm pretty sure they got snake away at greengate, but can probably find it at any home store with a garden center.

I got some from Home Depot.

Duck Butter 04-25-2012 03:50 PM

Only seen 2 living coral snakes in my life and they were about 5 minutes apart. My in-laws always kill a couple in their yards in Lincoln Parish and I can't get them to stop killing them completely but I have gotten them to not tear em up too bad when they do. I have a couple preserved in jars

Coral snakes are not vipers like all our other venomous snakes but elapids. They would literally have to find something small enough to fit their small mouths on and chew on it for a while to inject any venom and they are always trying to get away from capture (can not get one to stop for a picture), but either way I can see where people would kill them oh well

SULPHITE 04-25-2012 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Duck Butter (Post 424071)
Only seen 2 living coral snakes in my life and they were about 5 minutes apart. My in-laws always kill a couple in their yards in Lincoln Parish and I can't get them to stop killing them completely but I have gotten them to not tear em up too bad when they do. I have a couple preserved in jars

Coral snakes are not vipers like all our other venomous snakes but elapids. They would literally have to find something small enough to fit their small mouths on and chew on it for a while to inject any venom and they are always trying to get away from capture (can not get one to stop for a picture), but either way I can see where people would kill them oh well

waiting for you to chime in...I understand just human nature to be scared of snakes...non poisonous do not bother me unless they catch me off guard...poisonous...well it depends on the situation as to what I'll do...

Asterisk-Rich 04-25-2012 05:13 PM

My two phobias are snakes and spiders...Specktator caught a ribbon snake the other day and tried to throw it at me and i ran screaming like a lil girl. When i think of snakes i think of the devil! Dont you put that evil on me ricky bobby!

Duck Butter 04-25-2012 06:43 PM

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Originally Posted by SULPHITE (Post 424077)
waiting for you to chime in...I understand just human nature to be scared of snakes...non poisonous do not bother me unless they catch me off guard...poisonous...well it depends on the situation as to what I'll do...

I will break my neck trying to get away from a cockroach:rotfl:

SULPHITE 04-25-2012 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Duck Butter (Post 424156)
I will break my neck trying to get away from a cockroach:rotfl:

Hate them sobs...

bull1134 04-25-2012 08:13 PM

we had snakes in our yard for a long time, an ol man told me to put mothballs in some pantyhose and put them on a stake every ten yards or so, believe it or not, it worked. it does make it stink like mothballs though!

cmcnabb 04-25-2012 08:16 PM

Just had 2 under our pond boat in the pond. A big cotton mouth and small watersnake

Micah 04-25-2012 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Duck Butter (Post 424156)
I will break my neck trying to get away from a cockroach:rotfl:

I know that's right!!!!

Walked up on a blue runner yesterday while cutting my tree line. Sucker went straight for my burn pile, needless to say, that pile no longer stands.

dmtfish 04-26-2012 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by inchspinner (Post 423953)
Sounds like one of dem babby coppaas....dey'll get ya too..

Baby copperheads look just like the adults...triangle markings when looking from the side or like and hour-glass from the top...also the young snakes commonly have a yellow tipped tail (same as mocassins). What he killed sounds like a louisiana brown snake...harmless.... It really gets me how so many coon asses are scared of snakes when the poisonous snakes native to the area are so easy to identify.

mcjaredsandwich 04-26-2012 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by dmtfish (Post 424312)
Baby copperheads look just like the adults...triangle markings when looking from the side or like and hour-glass from the top...also the young snakes commonly have a yellow tipped tail (same as mocassins). What he killed sounds like a louisiana brown snake...harmless.... It really gets me how so many coon asses are scared of snakes when the poisonous snakes native to the area are so easy to identify.

In north Texas we don't have normal brown snakes. I've never seen a copperhead baby. I just assumed. The grass snakes we have are green. If I know what snake it is, and its harmless, I'll leave it alone. If I don't know what it is, its dead.

sammich

SaltyShaw 04-26-2012 12:27 AM

KILL EM ALL

there is no such thing as a good snake i dont care what you say

Chris Havoc 04-26-2012 01:10 AM

moth balls do the same thing as that expensive snake powder.


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